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Seminole patchwork is not well-known outside the state of Florida. <a href="http://www.npr.org/series/310432756/the-seams">The Seams</a> looks at culture through clothing — and within this hand-sewn and folded patchwork is the story of the Seminole Tribe of Florida.<p>Norman "Skeeter" Bowers, 48, has a closetful of brightly colored Seminole Indian patchwork — jackets, vests, shirts, tunics — the kind the Seminoles have made and worn for over a century. He's a senior member of the tribe and a special liaison to the Florida State Seminoles powerhouse football team.Sat, 28 Nov 2015 22:00:00 +0000Jacki Lyden59453 at http://wmot.orgOsceola At The 50-Yard LineBespoke Suits And Perfect Cravats At 'Dandy' Exhibithttp://wmot.org/post/bespoke-suits-and-perfect-cravats-dandy-exhibit
When you hear the word dandy, what do you think of?<p>Maybe the song "Yankee Doodle Dandy," which dates all the way back to the Revolutionary War, and compares the colonists to foppish, effeminate idiots: the dandies.<p>But a summer exhibit at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, closing Aug. 18, aims to reclaim the term. It explores dandyism through the ages, linking to the cutting edge of men's fashion and style. The name of the show is "Artist, Rebel, Dandy: Men of Fashion" — which does still leave you wondering what you might see.<br /> Sat, 03 Aug 2013 22:38:00 +0000Jacki Lyden27329 at http://wmot.orgBespoke Suits And Perfect Cravats At 'Dandy' ExhibitAround The River Bend, A Flood Of Historyhttp://wmot.org/post/around-river-bend-flood-history
The Bark River is my backyard, childhood river. And yet, in a lifetime of travel, I'd never explored it.<p>I knew it carved the land from the Ice Age to settlement times, from the Black Hawk War of 1832 (in which young Abraham Lincoln appears) to the era of grist mills. But the Bark also flows past impressive Indian mounds.Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:18:00 +0000Jacki Lyden17227 at http://wmot.orgAround The River Bend, A Flood Of HistoryMeet Al Black: Florida's Prison Painterhttp://wmot.org/post/meet-al-black-floridas-prison-painter
In the 1960s, Al Black could be found cruising up and down Route 1 in his blue-and-white Ford Galaxy — with a trunk full of wet landscape paintings.<p>At the time, he was a salesman who could snatch your breath away and sell it back to you. As artist Mary Ann Carroll puts it, he could "sell a jacket to a mosquito in summer."<p>"A salesman is a con-man," Black readily admits himself today. He's a storyteller. And does he have stories to tell.<p>Black was born on a plantation in Mississippi. One day, he says, a crew boss came by, needing more hands to pick crops.Thu, 05 Jul 2012 07:15:00 +0000Jacki Lyden12854 at http://wmot.orgMeet Al Black: Florida's Prison PainterThe Highwaymen: Segregation And Speed-Painting In The Sunshine Statehttp://wmot.org/post/highwaymen-segregation-and-speed-painting-sunshine-state
In the 1960s and '70s, if you were in a doctor's office, or a funeral home, or a motel in Florida, chances are a landscape painting hung on the wall. Palms arching over the water, or moonlight on an inlet.Wed, 04 Jul 2012 16:24:00 +0000Jacki Lyden12849 at http://wmot.orgThe Highwaymen: Segregation And Speed-Painting In The Sunshine State